The great tenor tragedy
Subtitle: the last days of Adolphe Nourrit
By: as told (mostly) by himself ; edited, annotated, and with an introduction and epilogue by Henry Pleasants ; translations by Henry and Richard R. Pleasants.
Contributors: Pleasants, Henry.
Publisher: Amadeus Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Nourrit, Adolphe, 1802-1839 -- Last years.; Nourrit, Adolphe, 1802-1839 -- Death and burial.; Tenors (Singers) -- France -- Biography.
Description: In 1839, four days after his thirty-seventh birthday, a great artist leapt to his death from the roof of an apartment in Naples, ending his life as the reigning tenor of the Paris Opera.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-174) and index.